#1 · Natural Landmark
Monument Valley
Sandstone buttes rising up to 1,000 feet from the valley floor, within a Navajo Tribal Park on the Arizona-Utah line, familiar from decades of Western films.
Monument Valley Attractions
The 31 attractions in this database associated with Monument Valley, ranked by the site's overall score.
31 attractions
#2 · Landmark
Four Corners Monument
The Four Corners Monument marks the quadripoint in the Southwestern United States where the states of Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico, and Utah meet. It is the only point in the United States shared by four states, leading to the area being named the Four Corners region. The monument also marks the boundary between two sovereign Native American governments, the Navajo Nation, which maintains the monument as a tourist attraction, and the Ute Mountain Ute Tribe Reservation.
#3 · Natural Landmark
West and East Mitten Buttes
The West and East Mitten Buttes (also known as the Mittens) are two buttes in the Monument Valley Navajo Tribal Park in northeast Navajo County, Arizona. When viewed from the south, the buttes appear to be two giant mittens with their thumbs facing inwards. The Mittens are about 0.6 mi (0.97 km) from the Arizona–Utah state line and West Mitten Butte is 1.1 mi (1.8 km) northeast of the park headquarters.
#4 · Natural Landmark
Totem Pole
The Totem Pole is a pillar or rock spire found in Monument Valley. It is a highly eroded remnant of a butte. Deserts at the end of the Permian period, 260 million years ago, formed the De Chelly and Wingate Sandstones that make up the buttes, totems, and mesas in Monument Valley.#5 · Natural Landmark
Hunts Mesa
This mesa marks the southern end of Monument Valley. It is in Southern Monument Valley, the extremely remote part of the valley that even the local Navajo people avoid.
#6 · Natural Landmark
Merrick's Butte
Merrick Butte is a butte located in Monument Valley and is part of the Monument Valley Navajo Tribal Park, similar to its neighbors West and East Mitten Buttes just to the north. It was named after silver miner Jack Merrick, killed by Native Americans in 1880.#7 · Historic Site
Ancestral Puebloan Ruin and Petroglyphs
This is another Ancestral Puebloan Ruin of importance in Monument Valley, but this one is slightly different from the others because it is on the ground. The ruin is on the edge of a narrow canyon that has high rocks on both sides. However, these ruin is fenced off and the fence was moved farther out from the ruin in 2018 to better protect it and the petroglyphs.#8 · Historic Site
Ancestral Puebloan Ruins
Although there are many Ancestral Puebloan ruins in Monument Valley, these ruins in the south of the park are probably the ones that are largest and most intact. They are, like Ancestral Puebloan ruins in general, lodged built into a wide but shallow cave in the side of a rounded rock.#9 · Natural Landmark
Artist's Point
From Artist's Point, you can look north toward the mittens and northern buttes.#10 · Natural Landmark
Big Hogan Arch
The name "Big Hogan" comes from the arch's appearance, which is similar to that of hogans. Hogans are a round type of building regularly seen in the Navajo Nation. "Big Hogan" used to be a gathering place for Indians, and was good for the traditional Navajo music because of the arch echoes.#11 · Natural Landmark
Camel Butte
This is a small butte near John Ford's Point. Dirt roads go past three sides of the butte; one goes on its western side between the butte and John Ford Point, one goes on its southern side between the Camel Butte and another butte to the south, and the other eastern road goes east of Thumb Spire to the North Window Overlook.#12 · Natural Landmark
Cly Butte
North Window overlook is between North Window Butte and Elephant Butte. In case you were wondering, there is no South Window overlook.#13 · Natural Landmark
Cube Rock
The Cube Rock is near the overlook point for Sand Springs in eastern Monument Valley. If you go to Yei Bei Chei point and look northeast, the small (in comparison with the other rocks), square-shaped rock is Cube Rock.#15 · Natural Landmark
Elephant Butte
This dramatic butte is northeast of John Ford's Point; if you go to John Ford's Point and look to your right, it should be the largest butte in that direction.#16 · Natural Landmark
Flying Eagle Butte
This butte is north of Sleeping Dragon Butte. The Flying Eagle is west of Yei Bi Chei and the eastern end of Flying Eagle is near a collection of sand dunes and Sand Springs. A canyon cuts into the southwestern part of the butte.#17 · Natural Landmark
Hidden Bridge Arch
This arch is part of a rock formation that is south of Big Hogan and Sun's Eye.#18 · Natural Landmark
John Ford Point
This viewing point was featured in several Western films. You can get a picture of yourself at this point – standing on a horse, just like it was in the films. At John Ford Point, there are several buildings, making this one of the more developed parts of the park – it's a just a rough dirt road to get there.#19 · Natural Landmark
John Wayne's Point
Named after the famous actor John Wayne, this point is near Lookout Point but instead faces east-southeast.#20 · Natural Landmark
Mitchell Mesa
This butte is named after a miner in the area who died while mining. He worked with Merrick, who also got an outcrop named after him.#21 · Natural Landmark
North Window Overlook
This overlook views the North Window and the desert expanse beyond it.#22 · Natural Landmark
Rooster Rock Spire
This spire is in the remote southeast of Monument Valley, meaning that even the all-day tours do not reach it.#23 · Natural Landmark
Sand Springs
There is a spring near a sand dune in this part of Monument Valley.#24 · Natural Landmark
Sleeping Dragon Butte
It looks like a dragon when viewed from the north and a ghost when viewed in the sky from the west. It is south of Flying Eagle and there are a few traditional Navajo hogans just south of the Sleeping Dragon. Parts of the Sleeping Dragon resemble the toadstools, but the cliffs around it and a large gash in the butte's southern side give its identity and location away.#25 · Natural Landmark
Spearhead Mesa
This large mesa looks like the letter "E" when viewed from the sky. It marks the northeastern boundary of the Eastern Monument Valley rock formations, and all of its three prongs are south of Artist's Point and north of The Cube and Yei Bi Chei Point.#26 · Natural Landmark
Sun's Eye
This arch is unique because you can see the arch from a rock formation below it.#27 · Natural Landmark
The Hub
This butte is a two-step butte; there is a large butte with a narrow one on top of it.#28 · Natural Landmark
Three Sisters Spires
These three spires are best viewed from the John Ford Point area, where they can be most easily recognized. The smallest of the spires, which is in the center, has a rock that sits on it. The large spire on the southern end looks like a person when viewed from the John Ford Point area.#29 · Natural Landmark
Thumb Spire
This spire, next to Camel Butte, has several large rocks lying next to it.#30 · Natural Landmark
Yei Bi Chei Point
This point overlooks the Sand Springs region of the park. The overlook point is near a riverbank. However, the area is also surrounded by rocks, so viewers will be looking up for rock formations at this overlook and not down.#31 · Natural Landmark
Yei Bi Chei Spires
These spires – which are next to Totem Pole Spire – are organized in a crescent-like shape. "Yei Bi Chei" is a Navajo term that refers to a particular special event that the locals used to do that involved dancing. The Yei Bi Chei spires can, particularly from the south, look like a group of dancers.
About this list
Attractions are associated with the nearest recognisable destination rather than by municipal boundary, so a place just outside Monument Valley still appears here if that is how visitors reach it. None of these publish an official visitor count, so they are ranked on public interest and tourism significance. Each page says so.
Near Monument Valley
The closest attractions outside Monument Valley, measured from the places listed above rather than from a town centre nothing occupies.
- Agathla Peak — 4.9 miles away, Kayenta
- Owl Rock — 5.9 miles away, Kayenta
- Navajo Code Talkers exhibit — 13 miles away, Kayenta
- Navajo National Monument — 24 miles away, Kayenta
- Chuska Mountains — 37 miles away, Chinle
- Black Mesa — 41 miles away, Kayenta
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